Word: koirala
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...drafting of a new constitution himself and, with the aid of $30 million in U.S. aid, built schools, roads and a radiotelephone network. In 1959, with Mahendra's consent and blessing, Nepal conducted its first election. The Nepali Congress Party, led by India-trained, vaguely socialist B. P. Koirala, won 74 out of 109 seats...
...darted across town to the Waldorf to see Ike, who had just finished lunching with delegates of all Latin American nations (not invited: Cuba, the Dominican Republic). Ike had also had a quick exchange of pleasantries with Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala and Lebanon's Premier Saeb Salam. Tito and Ike broke the ice with a discussion of cattle breeding, parted on Ike's invitation to Tito to travel freely in the U.S. during his stay...
...India last spring, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai wore his sunniest friendship grin. Mouthing sentiments of peace and solidarity, Chou happily played the role of Nepal's big brother in Asia, signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala that was designed to soothe border frictions...
Nepal took alarm; the Nepalese Senate passed a resolution calling for military training for boys and girls over 14 years old, and Koirala fired off a protest...
...Nepal agreement, signed in Peking at the close of a two-week state visit by anti-Communist Nepalese Premier B. P. Koirala. had the makings of a further Red Chinese penetration of the little Himalayan kingdom. A $21 million economic-aid agreement signed at the same time gave China the right, denied in a previous aid pact, to send in Chinese technicians. With Burma and Nepal thus tranquilized, Red China prepared to tackle its toughest border disagreement, i.e., with Jawaharlal Nehru's India. Much to the uneasiness of India's antiCommunists, New Delhi announced that Chou...